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Abstract:
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In cities today, the possibility of being confined is not only applicable
to fixed areas, like work or home, but it may also occur while moving.
This is because high levels of mobility, long distances, and extended
hours of daily travel, along with monotonous and difficult mobility
experiences may lead some to ‘‘miss’’ the city, in a tunnel-like manner.
In the context of urban daily mobility practices, this paper argues that
although the possibility for expanding places by daily mobility exists,
increasingly urban experiences in cities like Santiago de Chile, involve a
simultaneous tunneling or confining effect, reducing the possibilities of
encounter and interaction, which are the essence of urban experience.
Using an ethnographic approach to urban daily mobility practices in
Santiago de Chile, this paper discusses how mobility relates to place
making and to urban inequality and then analyzes the way place
enlargement and confinement occur. |